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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Provide whitelist of public IPs for public services

IBM Cloud does not provide any kind of whitelist for public-facing services. This prevents security-conscious people from hardening their firewalls by restricting outbound traffic to those whitelist IPs. I'm running into this issue now, where my s...
about 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Allow buttons/rich response as part of Option Response Type for Intercomm

Typically, we can adjust the Option Response Type to be a button or list etc for responses on the chat. However, support team confirmed with development team that rich response is not available for Intercom. This request is to impletement support ...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Change font size and font colour in the Web Chat integration for WA

While working on a chatbot, using the web chat integration, I found that there's limited things one can customize to change the look and feel of a chatbot. The function updateCSSVariables only admits very few CSS variables. I think that font size ...
almost 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Search skill message prompt to support multiple line or HTML tags in web chat widget

For search skill message prompt that consist of multiple line or HTML tags, web chat widget will treat it as normal text without formatting it accordingly. The web chat widget just ignore the multi line or HTML message prompt and display a single ...
almost 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Allow give others access in specefic skilss also, not WA instance only

i want to be able to give access for others user for specific skills not only WA instance, because i am creating 3 different chatbots (skills) for 3 different companies, and when i am about to share access with them , i found that i cannot give ac...
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 3 Planned for future release

Annotation-based method with system entities

When configuring intents, why cannot annotate samples with system entities. For example "I want to book an appointment with Dr. John for Fifi on next week" Ideally I would like to annotate "John" as "@sys-person" and "next week as a "@sys-...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Allow the ability to 'Jump to' a folder

You can't 'Jump To' a folder which seems unusual considering you have the ability to configure conditions on a folder. Let's day you have a folder with on topic content and you only want the content triggered when an utterance matches above a cert...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Simple folders without settings

When creating a folder you must decide whether digressions are allowed or not. To simplify the top level dialog structure is would be nice to be able to organise nodes in folders without these settings (they would act simply as containers which ha...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Slim UI and Better Layout

When you start to get serious adding entries into the Entities and Intents section of the Watson Assistant, I can't but help think that your UI is too fat. I can barely view 5 entries whilst the rest of the screen is occupied with irrelevant ...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Being able to collect attached file in chat conversation

Hi, It would be great if we could collect a file during a conversation (even small file like word document) Example 1: - A user connect to the chat and want to apply for a job offer after vewing all the current opportunities, he entrer...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration